The Clutha Leader. BALCLUTHA: TUESDAY, AUG. 21.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2040, 21 August 1906, Page 4

The Clutha Leader. BALCLUTHA: TUESDAY, AUG. 21.

An up-country blacksmith opens a brunch shop. The comment of the local paper was : "There is no limit to Mr 'a enterprise." Mr T. Mackenzie's definition of a country road : A sort of a cross between a drain, a wash out, and a sludge channel, Mr T. Wilford, member for the Hut I, will, it is understood, have Ministerial backing for the Chairmanship of Committees, vice i\lr Millar, who has attained Cabinet rank. Mr T. Y. Seddou will move the Ad-dress-in-Reply, which will be seconded by either Messrs Hogan (Wanganui) or Greenslade (Waikato). The Balelutha District School Committee have received four applications for the first uxsistantship ranging in classification from A.:i. to l).'.\. The committee meet on Wednesday evening to deal with this and other matters. The Scottish Society of Now Zea? land has issued a prospectus, showing the principal events to be put on at the gathering of the clans on Ist and 2nd Janu iry in the Exhibition sports enclosure at Christchurch. A pipe band eonlest will be held, for which the firsf prize is £OO, the .second t'lo, and the thirtl £2O. About, CIOO will be offered for bagpipe solos, and a special competition will be open to New Zealand pipe-s for the best original composition as a lament to the memory of the late Premier, the Right Hon. R. J. Se'dclon. About £l3O will be offered in prizes for- athle.tio events. With the exception of the Seddon lament composition all events, will bo championships, open to competitors from all parts of the world, in keepingi with tho international character of the Exhibition.

The- Government is inviting tenders for 23 (two in brick) workmen's hdmes at Roslyn. A Bugle Band in connection with the Toko High School is likely soon to bo an accomplished fact. Parliament meets to-day. The Governor's speech is looked forward to with a,, good deal of interest. The Pueruu creamery is starting operations again on the lirst of the coming month. Mr Thos. Mackenzie, MJI.R., has boon unanimously elected chairman of the Otago I'ducation Board, a, distinction he has thoroughly earned. The Clutha and Mntau A. and I'. Society has a membership of KiS, of whom Hi) are bona fide farmers ; a considerable improvement in this latter respect in the last year or two. A conference has been arranged between a deputation from the Licensed Victuallers' Union and the Executive of the Exhibition for the purpose of discussing the question of hotel tariffs. It is stated that Sir J. G, Ward intends that the House shall rise at a reasonable hour, and the probabilities are that sittings after midnight will be of rare occurrence. Cabinet meetings on Sunday will also be discontinued. A cablegram from China states that l)r Joseph Ings dieiT there on Thursday from dyscntry. Dr Ings was married only a year ago, and went to Canton last December as medical missionary for the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, The Borough Council intends presenting Mr John Dunne with an illuminated address and u purse of sovereigns. Subscriptions will shortly be canvassed for by a committee set up by the council last night. At Dunedin on Saturday, "William Hornby and Thos. MeNamara were committed for trial for the theft of rubbitskinsand breaking and entering the premises oi' Merry and Co., Dunedin. A man named Brandt, who purchased some of the stolen stuff, was so mentally effected by being mixed up in it and summoned as a witness (hat he hanged himself. During July fi(il men (111 married and 547 single) were sent to Government or private employment throughout the Colony. Of the total Wellington and Taranaki contributed 211, Auckland I ill and Dunedin 120. The great mass: of those, assisted are classed as labourers. Co-operative works at present emnloy 7*510 men, 229!) being on the North Island Mai.i Trunk line.

At a meeting of the Clutha Branch of the Farmers' Union on Saturday, the secretary reported that the illuminated address to Mr .1. \V. r l honvson, ox-M.TI.U., would be ready for signature on Monday. -On the motion ol Mr Watt, seconded by Mr Keys, it was left with the sub-committee to arrange for the signatures, and to luaki. all arrangements for the presentation. The concert on Friday promises ti be a great success. We hear that sev-

eral pounds of tickets have already been sold. Miss Eva Ormond will act as accompanist. Mrs Loring is down to Av.p "] bit] mv love.'' (llasdelot), "A field of daisies" (Allikin), "For the sake of the last" (Mattel) ; Mill. li. Black is to sing "When __ the anvil rin<?s," "Let me love thee." lie is also taking part in two trios with Messrs O'Connor ami Johnson. Miss V. Camp'hell has chosen Scotch songs lor the evening, Given a fine night, the Oddfellows' flail should be crowded out. T'he Rev. Robert Wood, who is -travelling on behalf of the Assembly in the interests of certain funds of the church, occupied the pulpit in the Presbyterian Church- here on Sunday. In the course of his remarks Mr Wood made out a strong appeal for a more liberal support, of the main fund of the church, the Sustentation Fund. The amount given when divided amongst communicants looked ridiculously small, when divided amongst the adherents the individual amount almost reached the vanishing point. Mr Wood spends the week here meeting and consulting with officebearers, members, and adherents. To-night at 7-30 he will give a lantern lecture in the church, showing, amongst others, many deeply interesting Scottish views. His lecture-entertainment is worthy of a full church. Tjuerua Correspondent :—A feminine ierrifer is in our midst just now in the presence of a " queer-fellow " who has been in the vicinity for these last few days. His object is evidently food, for which he seems to have a great desire alul believes in the Scotch " twa breakfasts." His condition is a problem to solve : but it is the belief of most people who have been his victims that lie is harmlessly mad. His greeting is a prolonged shire, and to give this greeting he does not k'tUK'k at the door—just walks in, fortunately for himself on most occasions when the master of tin; house is absent. I think the ladies of the district would welcome his removal as he has given some of them a scare that they wont easily forget. I believe the Balcluthn constable has him shadowed, hut, while he still remains, there may be rest for the wicked but none for the ladies. An adjourned meeting of the Halclutha Borough Council was held last evening, when all the councillors were present. The sanitation scheme came up for consideration, and the Borough Solicitor, who was present by request, advised the Council that the proposed site was Governniont property, over which the Council held mnly a grazing right. At was eventually drcLVd to send a sketch plan to Dr Ogston and inform him as to the ownership of the land. It was 'decided that the Council adopt a pan system and that the com mittoo. report further on Mondnv next. -lie fire engine the Clerk was instructed (o write to Waiinate and Gore for particulars of their engines, a motion to have a trial ' f the v ol ' ehen.

iciil engine, being hut on the t sling vote of the Mayor. A deputation consisting of Messrs C. l<\ Mitchell. J. Criehton, Alex. Lattimor. A. .11. I'oulter, .1, 0. Bishop, and S, 11. McKay waited on the Council with a request that the footpath troni the Wesley an OKurch to Mr Bishop's new house be asphalted. The deputation pointed out that the'work had been authorised by previous councils. It was decided to call for teiulm'H for the work in order to obtain an iilea of tho cost awl if possible to go on with the, york.~-The meeting stands adjourned till Monday evening.

The Clutha branch of the Farmers' Union has now a membership of 100.

At a social gathering at Melbourne on Saturday week, in honor of the Irish envoys, Messrs Devlin, M.P., and Donovan, it was stated that their tour through Victoria had resulted in the collection of £4OOO. Mr Biggins, M.f1.1i., in the course of a speech, said that in no country in the world wias there heard such vile falsehoods about Ireland as in Australia. It is stated by the. 'Sydney Stock and Station Journal' that a number of sheep-owners in the north-west part of New South Wales have had to send their slvec.p away in search of grass and water. Some parts of I that section of the State are said to be very bad, and growers are anxious. The reverse exists down by Kiverina, where, generally, the country never looked belter. As showing the difliculty of securing the services of teachers for the public schools throughout the colony, the West-land Education Hoard recently advertised for a position in the llokitika District High School, the salary being C 225 per annum. The advertisement brought forth only one applicant, and the Board is trying its luck again with a further advertisement.

The Americans (says a contemporary) are wonderful. No sooner has Mr Upton Sinclair succeeded in making the whole world's llesh creep by his lurid exposure of the methods of the Beef Trust, than his enterprising countrymen have converted Mr I'pton Sinclair himself info a (rust. A company has been formed to exploit his literary future. If dividends are to be kept up, a succession of scandals will bo necessary.

The member for Clutha (Mr Malcolm) is generally admitted to have made ii capital speech at the Gore banquet to the lion. Mr MeNab lust Tuesday evening. It certainly reads well. One of the Alataura papers devotes about half a dozen "local" paragraphs to diUVivii! points in his speech-—a .special distinction, as none of the other speeches are localised in any way, and this particular paper though moderate is not on the same side, in polities as Mr Malcolm,,

As t'he result of the meat scandals, some .British importers of American canned meat have not hesitated to put bogus labels on their tins, purporting the contents to have been canned in Australia. The 'Mail' states that the Sydney Meat Preserving Company has received a letter to this effect from its London otlice. Efforts are now being made to get the Board of Trade to insist that tins shall be stamped "Packed in Australia," or America, as the case may be. Already one firm is selling American canned goods, the label of which bears tin.' name " Yarrnwomba," while another firm labels its meat Sydney Packing Company. Others are selling without labels at all.

The kindness of the poor to the poor was again exemplified by a case which came before the Wellington Benevolent 'trustees on Tuesday (says- the Tost'). A woman who had a family of thirteen children, and whose husband is out of work, took compassion last Saturday night upon a young woman from the country, who had no home, and, with her four young children, was in a starving condition. This latter woman's husband \ms in the South seeking work. The trustees decided to pay rent for the woman from the country, and to proride her and her children with rations until help came from the husband. The good Samaritan who hftd taken the live homeless ones in last Snoirday has provided (lie. room in which taey are now staying.

The Hon. Mr Fowlds, replying to the Saddlers' Union deputation, protesting against the awards of the Arbitration Court, and alleging that the judge was out of sympathy with the workers, said that they must recognise that it was a serious matter to interfere with the Court, which had been constituted to secure the very best and most impartial decisions possible. The president was a judge of the Supreme Court. Supposing tho workers got a president who they considered would be in sympathy with them, it would be a serious matter ii employers wished to have his decisions interfered with by the tJovernmenl. He indicated that the Government could not interfere, but he promised to bring the representations made under the notice of the Minister of Labor. Active operations on the oil field have now seriously commenced. The Tnranaki Petroleum Company has started to sink No. •> bore, which is expected to lake four months to sink. On Tuesday the company also commenced clearing out the old abandoned well known as Samuel's No. .'!. This well struck oil, hut in those days the water difficulty could not be overcome. Mr Fair has sunk 12 feet preparatory to drilling and sand pumping the bore to clear it. Today pure oil commenced to bubble up into the shaft, and the pressure gradually increased. The oil was hulled out in buckets. The success of this hope is already assured, as the same system will be used to shut uIT water as in tkv. Moturoa bore. It is expected to take only six weeks to c!<w and case this bore. The Moturoa well is stronger than ever, oil oozing from every joint in (he casing.

II would surely lie diflienlt to lind a more curious invention that that described in a "recent issue of th,. 'Scientific American' for the prevention of snoring. 'l'lie device consists of ,\ llexihlc plate or mouthpiece designed |lo lie held Ix'tween the lips and in | contact with (he teeth ami gums ttm ill'' sleep. 11, is titled with a check , valve (o_ regulate, the amount of air passiiiu- from the mouth on its way to or from the hum*. This valve or ( Hap h so arranged as to prevent the entrance of air into the lungs through . the mojith, although allowing it to lie oxpollod in the act ot inhaling. The wraivr is therefore oblige! to breathe ( principally through tho nose, and is I consequently himself benefited to this extent, that hw escapes the evils commonly credited lo inoirth-broathin.;, jUhile ho saves from disturbance others Uiho might otherwise U dtstressyd by I the, noiso *of his alwp.

The members of the C.M.R. put in a very useful afternoon at held work on Saturday. The men had' to bring in written reports, and there will be checked by the O/C, and any mistakes pointed out. Mr Thos. Boyd. ,whi> left Stirling nearly two years-ago to take up the agency of the N.Z. Loan and MA."Co at Ejfetahuna is at present on a trip south on holiday leave. A few months ago he was transferred to Pahiatua, some 11 miles further north than Ekctahuna. It is the.' centre of a wkle'""-extent of country, much of which has recently been elcareu of bush, the further ijonlines being only, however,' in process of denudation now. It is a great 'dairying and cattle-raising country ; dairy factories in the centres, and creameries at nearly every tossroad. Of cropping and the growing of winter feed there is none. The place is prosperous, tin re is plenty of ready money, and there is plenty of business doing. Mr Boyd is looli'ng well, and things seem to be moving'on right lines with him.